[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#891881: mailman3-suite: On system using exim (no postfix install) the list create script tries to create postfix aliases

[Jonas Meurer]

Control: reassign -1 mailman3-core
Control: found -1 3.1.1-4
Control: retitle -1 mailman3-core: SysVinit script broken (action
'restart' doesn't work)

Am 09.03.2018 um 22:36 schrieb Jonas Meurer:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Am 09.03.2018 um 21:43 schrieb Markus Gschwendt:
>> After further debugging and discussion i bring this back here because i
>> think it is related to the debian packages.
>>
>> Summary:
>>
>> I figured out that a restart/stop-start of mailman3-suite and mailman3-
>> core does not stop mailman.
>>
>> 'service mailman3-suite stop' kills only the uwsgi processes (not
>> mailman)
> 
> That's expected. 'mailman3-suite' provides only the the uWSGI daemon
> with the Django webinterface. 'mailman3-core' on the other hand provides
> the actual mailman3 daemon.
> 
> I agree that this is somewhat confusing.
> 
>> this is why the changed config is not active for the webUI after stop-
>> start mailman in this way.
>>
>> a 'mailman stop' and 'mailman start' seems to work
> 
> Can you verify that restarting 'mailman3-core' (e.g. via `service
> mailman3-core restart`) solves the issue for you?

We had some further discussion about the bug in upstream issue #455[1].

It turned out that the problem is about a broken SysVinit script for
mailman3-core. 'service mailman3-core restart' doesn't restart the
mailman3-core daemon as expected.

Cheers,
 jonas

[1] https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/issues/455

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